[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by ChrisH

Actually what you really want to do is buy the stuff other teams aren't. Sometimes it is better to be the only one who can do a particular useful thing.

So if everybody else is buying all the thingamabobs so they can practice shoving balls into the whatsit. Maybe what you really want is to buy thingys so you can build a practice whojidingle. Being the only whojidingle robot can be a real advantage come alliance picking time ... assuming we have alliances.

The GDC wants you to spend some time THINKING about what you want to do before you start buying a lot of stuff. I think that if they are making such a point about it, it might be a real good idea to pay attention, rather than paying something else.

ChrisH

Realizing that ChrisH is the FIRST FTA for the Los Angeles Regional (as well as an aerospace engineer), I immediately recognized that the red, bolded items in his post are in fact, very useful clues to this year's game. So, I went to buyFIRSTstuff.com and found that none of these items were offered, as a matter of fact, only the domain name is for sale...

So, don't buy any FIRST stuff until you're sure you'll need it!!